Discordance : the troubled history of the Hubble constant / Jim Baggott.
| Author/creator | Baggott, Jim, 1957- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xii, 314 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Starry messengers -- Miss Leavitt's law -- The scale of the universe -- Hubble's constant -- Divine curves of creation -- Parameters of the universe -- Hubble wars -- The inflationary universe -- Dark energy and the accelerating universe -- Concordance -- The hubble tension -- Discordance. |
| Summary | The speed of the expansion of the universe is governed by the Hubble constant. Discordance tells of its troubled 100-year history, from tentative steps to measure the distances of nearby stars to orbiting telescopes peering into the far reaches of space. But recent results hint at more trouble ahead: the Hubble tension. The story is not over yet. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-300) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Baggott, J. E. Discordance. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780191954641 |
| ISBN | 9780192864062 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0192864068 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | ebook |
| ISBN | ebook |